Chapter 212: Fake Evil
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 212: Fake Evil
Just a moment ago, Seo Ye-rin’s mother left after receiving some recommendations.
It seems the items I suggested last time worked quite well, as she apparently had a wonderful time with her husband.
Thanks to that, I kept Seo Ye-rin in mind while recommending various things that would likely suit her mother’s tastes.
It was a relief that our shop carries such a unique and diverse inventory.
The problem came afterward.
“Welcome…”
Aside from Seo Ye-rin’s mother, this was the first time I’d ever greeted a customer with such hesitation.
Senior Ju-hee, who had just walked into the shop, looked around with eyes full of curiosity.
She had been here a few times before, but she’d always lingered near the entrance before turning back.
Since this was her first time actually seeing the place properly, her bewildered expression was only natural.
“Gasp.”
She hadn’t expected the items to be so… explicit. Her mouth hung open as she stole glances at her surroundings.
“…Senior?”
When I called out to her cautiously, she snapped out of it. After a forced cough, she tried her best to maintain her composure.
“Something popular, please.”
“What kind would you like? Something to use with a boyfriend, or for solo use?”
“…”
Senior Ju-hee bit her lip, her expression screaming, Do you really have to ask that?
Personally, I just wanted her to leave quickly, which is why I’d asked.
“So… solo.”
“Got it. Understood.”
I immediately grabbed a vibrator—one of the milder ones—and headed to the counter.
“I can give you a friend discount. Would you like that?”
“…You can do that?”
“Yes, the owner told me to give them out if I felt like it.”
It seemed the owner had other sources of income besides this shop.
In the end, Senior Ju-hee took the item and left with the discount. I bowed my head and saw her off, wishing her a safe trip home.
* * *
“Sigh.”
Min Ju-hee threw her bag onto the bed and let out a frustrated sigh.
A normal person might have thrown a fit or ruffled their hair in distress.
But Min Ju-hee tried to stay as calm as possible, catching her breath and suppressing her anger.
She was furious at herself for letting her instincts take over and making such a mistake.
Even with the discount, the adult toy in her bag felt like the most useless purchase of her entire life.
“Ugh, I’m going crazy.”
Her emotions had flared up because of her younger siblings, but now that some time had passed, she was starting to regain her senses.
Vrrr! Vrrr!
Her phone rang.
Checking the screen, it was Lee Eun-woo, a senior she used to live with in the dormitory.
She’d heard Eun-woo was currently balancing life as a Physical Therapy Dept. TA and grad student.
“Eun-woo Sunbae?”
— Ju-hee, what are you doing today? Want to grab a drink? It’s on me!
“What’s gotten into you, Senior? You’re usually always looking for guys.”
— I don’t want to see a single man today. You wouldn’t believe what the professor—!
Essentially, she was asking Ju-hee to be her emotional trash can. However, Min Ju-hee also felt the need to vent her own feelings to someone.
“Sure.”
Even though it was a bit late, she headed back out for drinks.
* * *
“Hmm, is it here?”
Press.
“Ahhn.”
“Or here?”
“Mmmph.”
An empty classroom.
Since there was a bit of time before the next lecture, Seo Ye-rin and I were conducting some "research" of our own.
“…What the fuck am I looking at right now?”
That was Yoo Ah-rin’s voice coming from behind us. She’d mentioned being bored today since she had no classes, and it seemed she’d finally tracked us down.
“Ahhh.”
“Oh? You’re here?”
I greeted her on behalf of the moaning Seo Ye-rin. Yoo Ah-rin rubbed her eyes as she stared at us.
“Am I seeing this correctly?”
“No, it’s not anything lewd or anything like that. Don’t look at us weirdly.”
“Hngh.”
“…Massaging a healthy girl’s breasts isn’t a lewd act?”
I nodded confidently at Yoo Ah-rin’s words. Even now, my hands were kneading Seo Ye-rin’s soft, full breasts through her clothes.
I really wanted her to know there wasn’t a shred of ulterior motive in this act.
“I work at an adult store, remember? Customers ask me all sorts of things, so I’m studying for their sake.”
This was the truth.
Lately, many customers had been asking me for advice.
…Plus, I wanted to be able to recommend things that would suit Seo Ye-rin’s mother’s tastes the next time she visited.
Whatever the case, I had to get on my future mother-in-law’s good side, right?
“I see.”
“Oh?”
Surprisingly, Yoo Ah-rin accepted it easily. She nodded, trudged over, and gave a bright smile.
“Then I guess you aren’t turned on at all? Since this is just work to you.”
“…”
“Right? It wouldn’t be right to get hard while doing professional work, would it?”
I cautiously pulled my hands away.
Yoo Ah-rin glanced down. I tried to hunch over to hide it, but she started drumming on my back instead.
“You’ve really developed a taste for doing this at school, haven’t you?! Huh?! You’ve got it bad, don’t you?!”
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
Yoo Ah-rin wailed on me like she was playing a game of punishment slaps. As I groaned under the assault, another pair of hands joined in.
“Hey, Seo Ye-rin! Why are you hitting me too?!”
“Kyahaha!”
Now the two of them were just having fun drumming on my back. They only stopped after a while, complaining that their palms hurt.
“Phew, that actually relieved some stress.”
“I feel like I got a workout.”
“…Sure, whatever. As long as you guys are happy.”
I knew that arguing would only lead to more trouble, so I let it slide.
“So. Is that really the only reason you were touching her?”
Yoo Ah-rin let out an incredulous laugh, resting her chin on her hand.
“Yeah, seriously. I mean, I’ll admit I’m a little bit hard. But I’m telling you, I wasn’t touching her just out of lust.”
“A little bit? A liiiittle bit?!”
This time, Seo Ye-rin kicked my shin. Apparently, she didn’t like the "little bit" part.
“Phew, I’m rock hard.”
“There, that’s more like it.”
Seo Ye-rin nodded in satisfaction. Yoo Ah-rin looked back and forth between the satisfied Ye-rin and the honest me, then nodded as if the whole situation was absurd.
“I probably shouldn’t be the one saying this, but… you two really are a perfect match in the most fucked-up way.”
“Oh my, Ah-rin, thank you! I’ll make sure to toss the bouquet to you at our wedding!”
“Look at her getting all sly lately.”
I couldn’t just stand by and watch them start a war of nerves, so I stepped in between them.
“Stop it, girls! You can’t fight over me!”
“Ugh, fuck off.”
“How can our Woo-jini say something that makes me lose interest so instantly?”
“…”
It was a line I’d always wanted to say at least once in my life.
Anyway, thanks to the fact that they now had a common enemy in me, the atmosphere relaxed again.
“But I’m not joking. People really have been asking me things lately. You guys see the Bamboo Forest every day, don’t you?”
“Ah.”
“That?”
The reason people were asking me so many questions was because of a post on the Bamboo Forest.
Posts like these had caused word about me to spread naturally.
No one approached me at school, but at the shop, quite a few people came in specifically for recommendations after seeing those posts.
“The Bamboo Forest has become way too lewd. Just look at the stuff being posted now.”
I grumbled and held out my phone, and the two of them leaned in to look.
“Hey.”
Yoo Ah-rin and I looked at Seo Ye-rin at the same time.
She was already holding her phone, huffing with her lips pouted out.
“I—I’m the Sex Master! Me! Aaaagh!”
Seo Ye-rin clutched the back of her neck and staggered. It looked like she was about to pass out, so I quickly caught her and sat her back down.
“Anyway, you see? The rumors have spread, so a lot of people come and ask me things. Some guys even asked for a discount because they saw it on the Bamboo Forest.”
As I made my excuses while holding onto the hyperventilating Seo Ye-rin, Yoo Ah-rin gave a noncommittal reaction.
“Can’t you just ignore them?”
“But it’s linked to sales. The owner even increased my pay because sales have jumped since I started.”
“Oh… Ah, so that’s why you didn’t delete the posts? I thought you would’ve wiped them out long ago.”
Yoo Ah-rin nodded, finally understanding.
Yes, exactly.
Normally, since it involved me, I would have quietly deleted everything.
But since it helped the shop’s sales and boosted my own wages, I was leaving them be. It was unintentional promotion.
“Anyway, that’s why I’m studying the female body more. That’s my point.”
“You really have a talent for making bullshit sound like it’s not bullshit, don’t you?”
“Hehe, thanks.”
“It wasn’t a compliment, you prick.”
Oh, it wasn’t?
“…If that’s the case, do you want me to help too?”
After a moment of hesitation, Yoo Ah-rin asked softly. Her face was flushed, and she bit her lip as she waited for my answer.
“Ah.”
Suddenly, I remembered the time in the past when Yoo Ah-rin had offered her breasts for me to touch.
She was so innocent back then.
Well, even now, the way she blushed while saying she’d endure it for my sake was charming.
Squish.
I immediately reached out with both hands and squeezed both sides at once.
“Wow, not even a second of hesitation.”
Seo Ye-rin watched from the side, shaking her head in disbelief.
“Now then.”
Yoo Ah-rin pushed my hands away and asked with a smirk.
“Which breasts did you like better?”
“…”
“Oh, I’m curious too.”
I was momentarily speechless.
I tried to give the standard, safe answer with a smile.
“I liked both—”
“Don’t give me that bullshit.”
“Where do you think you’re going with that, Woo-jina?”
Terrifying.
Yoo Ah-rin was smiling as if daring me to speak, and while Seo Ye-rin was beaming, it was obvious she’d pounce the moment I said the wrong thing.
A wise man gives a clever answer to a foolish question.
“I liked Yoo Ah-rin’s when I was touching hers, and I liked Seo Ye-rin’s when I was touching hers.”
Thump.
Thump.
Two sets of breasts were pressed into my hands.
Both of them simultaneously grabbed one of my hands and placed it on their own chest.
“What about now?”
Wait, this is…
“Ah-rin, do you really think this is a fight you can win?”
When I asked cautiously, she gritted her teeth and nodded.
“Yeah, sure. Go ahead and answer. Say that thing you’re thinking right now.”
Ah, if I mention Seo Ye-rin, I might actually die.
Had she planned this situation from the moment I first touched Seo Ye-rin’s breasts?
“How about it, you prick? That 'three-way relationship' you talked about always ends up in a situation like this.”
“…”
“Do you think that actually makes sense? Huh? No matter who you choose here, we’re bound to fight.”
Yoo Ah-rin’s masterstroke.
She was right; no matter who I chose, resentment would build between them.
In that case.
All the evil and the rift in their feelings…
I would take it upon myself.
“Choi I-seo is the best—!”
Both of their fists flew toward me at the same time.